NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Gahraman, Mirzayeva Intizar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The study aims to analyze the distributional features of adverbial modifier of manner in two languages that are typologically and genealogically different: English and Azerbaijani. Although the issue has been focused in these languages separately from various angles including semantic, syntactic and prosodic perspectives, there is a gap in the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Semantics
Petrova, Nyurguyana – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This thesis is a comprehensive study of lexical and clause-linkage properties of converbs in an underdescribed language, Sakha (aka Yakut). Following Haspelmath (1995b) a converb is defined as a non-finite verb form which mainly indicates an adverbial subordination. Converbs are attested in diverse languages of the world, but are used extensively…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)